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Dead Serious by Vawn Cassidy

Narrated by Joel Leslie I was intrigued by the blurb for Dead Serious, which promised a mystery featuring a socially awkward pathologist trying to find a murderer and a romance between said pathologist and the gorgeous detective assigned to the…

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Seducing the Sorcerer by Lee Welch

Narrated by Joel Leslie Lee Welch’s Seducing the Sorcerer is a quirky, sweet and inventive fantasy that combines an opposites-attract, slow-burn romance between two men in their forties (yay for older protagonists!) with magic, mystery and political intrigue. I enjoyed…

Treasure by Kim Fielding
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Treasure by Kim Fielding

Narrated by Joel Leslie I so enjoyed listening to Kim Fielding’s Farview a few weeks ago that I decided to back-track and listen to the novella that preceded it, Treasure. It’s a little gem of a tale that introduces listeners…

Farview by Kim Fielding
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Farview by Kim Fielding

Narrated by Joel Leslie You know how, sometimes, you finish a book, sit back with a sigh and think “what a lovely story!”? I did just that after listening to Kim Fielding’s Farview (book two in her Greynox to the…

Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian
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Peter Cabot Gets Lost by Cat Sebastian

Narrated by Joel Leslie Apart from the author/narrator combination, which is usually a sure win for me, the big attraction of Peter Cabot Gets Lost was the 1960’s setting. It feels like a very underrepresented historical period within romance and…

Sink or Swim by Annabeth Albert
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Sink or Swim by Annabeth Albert

Narrated by Greg Boudreaux and Joel Leslie Sink or Swim is the second in Annabeth Albert’s Shore Leave series, but you can easily jump in here without having read or listened to book one, Sailor Proof, as the stories are…

Best Man by Lily Morton
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Best Man by Lily Morton

Narrated by Joel Leslie Best Man is the first book in Lily Morton’s Close Proximity series and features a familiar character in Jesse, one of Eli’s roommates from Morton’s Finding Home series. The book begins with a prologue which takes…

Voyageurs by Keira Andrews
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Voyageurs by Keira Andrews

Narrated by Joel Leslie I suppose saying “it was too short” is a form of praise – right? I recently reviewed another novella by Keira Andrews – Arctic Fire – and said exactly that; I enjoyed it and would have…

Sailor Proof by Annabeth Albert
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Sailor Proof by Annabeth Albert

Narrated by Joel Leslie & Greg Boudreaux The first in Annabeth Albert’s new Shore Leave series, Sailor Proof, is a fluffy, angst-free story which pairs two excellent narrators and some of my favourite tropes: fake relationship, best friend’s sibling and…